Saudi men launch Facebook Campaign To Whip Women Who Dare To Drive

Saudi men launch Facebook Campaign To Whip Women Who Dare To Drive

Saudi Arabian men have launched a Facebook campaign in response to women planning to protest against the law banning them from driving in the
ultra-conservative nation.

The page, titled 'The Iqal Campaign: June 17 for preventing women from driving', refers to the Arabic name for the cord used to hold on the
traditional headdress worn by many men in the Gulf, advocating the cord be used to whip women who dare to drive.

Days after a Saudi woman by the name of Sharif posted a YouTube video of herself defying Saudi's Arabia's ban on women driving, she was then arrested
by police and imprisoned for five days, charged with "spurring women to drive, on the Internet, and inciting public opinion,"

Now, AFP is reporting that a Facebook page has sprouted up calling for men to beat any Saudi women who drive their cars with an iqal; the cord men
use to keep their headdress in place.

you know we need more of these campaigns that make the women need men again, i mean with all whats going on and women being so independent more men
are depressed. women dont need us anymore, thats not right. you drive, i whip!

Saudi men threatened to use their head dresses as a whip to prevent women from driving cars as part of a new Facebook male campaign in response to
another campaign by women.

A new Facebook page also threatened men against helping women in their campaign to drive cars, saying these the Iqal (headgear) would be waiting for
these men. Women quickly hit back by threatening to use blade weapons to defend themselves ar-ar.facebook.com...

I swore profusely for a few minutes just reading the title of this post and am now having me a #ing bowl of honey nut cheerios to focus on. How far
has society come when Humans were just apes? God damn it.

I find this # appalling just because I was born in Canada and never witnessed this kind of stuff at 20 years old, but really? There's still people
with the mindset of an 'ape' thinking that women driving is the work of a devil? This is one of the many groups that give Islam a bad rap I'm
sure.

Geez.. We ain't going anywhere out in space if we don't AS A WHOLE TOGETHER get over these issues.

What is it about these Muslim countries????????
It just goes to show how primative and backward thinking that part of the world really is.
Yet western countries wont say a word in disgust about Saudi arabia as we want their oil. This world is sick

This is just flabberghasting. Really, I find it hard to fathom living in a country where I would be told how to dress, educate, live, drive, and the
law upholding the idea that whipping a woman for things that should be her right as a human being is just unbelievable! I would find my way out of
that country

“We warn women against adopting Western attitudes and concepts and against a large increase in road
accidents in case women are allowed to drive cars,” the men’s site said.

And its confusing as they call if a ban on driving. Were women there ever allowed to drive?

Are women allowed to do anything over there???
I mean other then being a slave to their arranged husband.
This doesn't shock me that this is happening, it only re- enforces my dislike for such practices and such people and there religious
ideal's

Sometimes I wonder what people like that would think if the roles were reversed. What would they think if people were controlling the clothes they
wore, whether or not they could receive an education, whether or not they could drive etc...

Something tells me they would not be so happy about that... But I guess they don't care... ?

Do they think they are entitled and women aren't? Do they think they are superior?

In short, nothing outside of what their husbands or the patriarchal government let them do. Let's not confuse this with all of Arab culture, but
leave it where it belongs most, in the Gulf States such as Saudi Arabia. Women are NOT citizens, they are property. Think of them as pets that you can
have sex with and take care of the kids. That's it. And if a husband has a crappy day at work or the wife speaks up for herself, well, beating her
within an inch of her life, or even killing her in some cases is accepted.

This content community relies on user-generated content from our member contributors. The opinions of our members are not those of site ownership who maintains strict editorial agnosticism and simply provides a collaborative venue for free expression.